Today, most insulin in produced in a large factory by which types of organisms:

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The question asks about where most insulin is produced today in large factories and lists four organism options.
Option 1: ducks. This is incorrect because there is no practical industrial process using ducks to produce insulin at scale.
Option 2: cows or pigs. While some earlier or niche biotechnological efforts explored animal-derived insulin, modern large-scale production does not rely on extracting insulin from animal pancreases due to purity and safety concerns.
Option 3: chickens. Similar to option 1, chickens are not used in large-scale insulin manufacturing for biotech production and purification reasons.
Option 4: yeast or bacteria. This is correct because today's insulin is predominantly produced via recombinant DNA technology in microorganisms like Escherichia coli (bacteria) orSaccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast), enabling consistent, scalable, and purified insulin production.
In summary, the industrial standard uses microbial hosts for recombinant insulin production, whereas the other animals listed do not serve as the primary production platforms in modern pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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Today, most insulin in produced in a large factory by which types of organisms:

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